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Plot Summary
Jennifer (Leelee Sobieski) is a 17-year-old Goth with multiple face-piercings and a fondness for graveyards. Randall (Albert Brooks) is a middle-aged salesman with an obsessively tidy life and a fear of anything new. When these two opposites collide, the chain reaction sparks a life-altering meltdown for them both in this wickedly perceptive, critically acclaimed comedy from Academy Award®-winning director and actress Christine Lahti.* Desperate to escape the world of her infuriatingly cheery mother (Carol Kane) and mindless classmates, punk-rebel Jennifer impulsively applies for a job at Randall's conservative clothing store. Soon, an unlikely friendship blooms. But even as Randall attempts to show Jennifer the possibilities of her own future, Jennifer discovers the extraordinary secret haunting Randall's past. A wry, hilarious, powerfully emotional story of reaching out, making contact, and coping with the consequences. MY FIRST MISTER is an unforgettable film Leonard Maltin applauds as "Wonderful and unpredictable!"
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
TOMATOMETER
53%- Reviews Counted: 80
- Fresh: 42
- Rotten: 38
- Average Rating: 5.6/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: Of all the odd couples who inhabit film, surely among the most endearing are Jennifer and Randall.
Fresh: Brooks guards the movie from overheating in a surfeit of warmedy.
Rotten: Offers the curious experience of being able to believe in a screen full of first-rate actors yet not believe in anything that's happening to the people they're playing.
Rotten: Franklin's gooey, implausible script is too ridiculous to support unexpected bouts of sincerity, and the darkness is seldom as profound as it should be.
Customer Reviews
An unexpected delight
An unexpected delight. Leelee Sobieski is masterful. Touching and sincere.
MISTER IS A WINNER
What an odd and thoroughly enchanting film. Kudos to Christine Lahti as not only a fine actress but director. She keeps characters that could have been maudlin and excessive perfectly tuned. This is one of those atypical love stories we need to see more of... that a young, delinquent teen could initially find love and then redefine that same love with an unlikely fuddy-duddy 32 years her senior is a marvel to watch. The actors and the writing are simply wonderful. A small, inconsequential film not to be missed.
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- $14.99
- Genre: Comedy
- Released: 2002
- © 2001 by Paramount Classics, a division of Paramount Pictures.